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Month: June 2007
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Swatch Group Japan’s Nicolas G. Hayek Center
I’m surprised I missed this — I was even in Ginza yesterday for one of my gallery tours — but Swatch Group Japan’s Nicolas G. Hayek Center (7-9-18 Ginza), designed by Shigeru Ban, is now open. The photo above comes from this TimeZone post, which includes a few more shots of the building.
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Uniqlock Is Live
Remember that Uniqlock site I pointed to last week? It’s now live, and turns out that it’s a flash-based clock featuring music by Fantastic Plastic Machine, and includes a widget (as seen above) that you can put on your site. You can only do Tokyo right now, but other cities will be added very soon.…
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Masaki Hiromura Exhibition at GGG
I stopped by the Ginza Graphic Gallery yesterday to have a look at the current exhibition (until June 27) covering the works of Masaki Hiromura, and quite liked what I saw, enough to pick up the accompanying GGG Books (81) volume for the show. The signage work alone he did for the CODAN Shinonome residential…
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TBWA/Hakuhodo
Rather nice site from ad agency TBWA/Hakuhodo. I stopped by the Guardian Garden gallery in Ginza yesterday for Kenjiro Sano’s “Botsu” exhibition — Sano works for Hakuhodo Design — and I liked the way they presented the show (walls are covered, floor-to-ceiling, with printed out A4-sized pages of his work). Link via JoshSpear.com.
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This Week at Gridskipper
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Chelsea Cafe Burger King in Japan Tokyo Big Sight Sunshine Studio You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).
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Prints Are Good
Tim Rudder is offering up prints of some of his recent photos, so best to go quick and take him up on his offer now! Update: Please take note that you’ll need to cover the printing and postage cost.
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New Chairs from Yoshioka and Fukasawa
Dezeen posts some photos from the “Vitra Edition 2007” show in Basel. Above is the Kimono Chair from Tokujin Yoshioka, and below a series from Naoto Fukasawa.